Example sentences of "around in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Many mechanised units which should be riding around in armoured personnel carriers are still mounted in trucks — some are even reduced to walking . |
| 32 | He warned of the dangers of liking to walk around in flowing robes . |
| 33 | Third , BT 's financial strength means that customers do n't have to worry about it still being around in five years time . |
| 34 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 35 | Customers of our systems division must be convinced that Olivetti really will still be around in five years ’ time . |
| 36 | Of the rest of the pack she says : ‘ I would n't want to be definite about how many of then will be around in five years ’ time . ’ |
| 37 | One morning I called International Backside and Balvinder said he would be around in five minutes . |
| 38 | He lay on the ground thrashing around in great pain , strange choked gurgling sounds escaping from his throat . |
| 39 | Hundreds — mostly men , mostly young and mostly in militia uniform — mill around in small groups , in silence , moving from grave to grave . |
| 40 | Later , Mr Howie forecast that the boards would still be around in four years ' time . |
| 41 | He 's got no money to spend , and when he turned a losing team around in 1983 he had four or five exceptional and emerging players in his squad . |
| 42 | Entering the dining room shortly afterwards , he looked around in vain for Kee . |
| 43 | Tabitha looked around in vain for a few minutes . |
| 44 | What clearly frustrates him is that so much of the money now sloshing around in professional tennis , is being spent in damaging — or at least potentially damaging ways — rather than for the good of the game , as well as for the good of the individuals who are benefitting . |
| 45 | Females under thirty tried to look like thumbsucking little girls ; with turned-in toes , they skipped around in buttock-skimming shifts over pale tights . |
| 46 | Small , immature goats suffer most ; they find moving around in deep snow most difficult and demanding . |
| 47 | Hens and geese were picking around in two small haystacks and fleets of tiny yellow chickens were half hidden beneath some planking and under the foundations of some rickety sheds . |
| 48 | Are they going to spend it suddenly in er two years time , or are they expecting not to be around in two years time ? |
| 49 | This Barth saw as the irreplaceable basis of Christian theology ; and , he insisted , once it had been recognised , there could be no possible reason for casting around in other directions , and certainly not for turning theology back into the contemplation of our own spiritual navels , or for blunting the challenge and promise of the gospel by seeking to reinterpret or ‘ improve ’ it in the terms of some alternative ( and therefore competing ) theological or philosophical frame of reference . |
| 50 | Gardeners are an inquisitive breed and when they 're on holiday , there 's nothing they enjoy more , than snooping around in other people 's gardens . |
| 51 | Perhaps that is why I 'm not all that much attached to being part of a permanent company for too long — I get bored by being around in one place for too long . |
| 52 | ‘ I just want to get around in one piece . |
| 53 | ‘ In that case , why are Dr Darnell and I walking around in one piece ? |
| 54 | He puts it on his head and spins around in one motion . |
| 55 | It was only on the second and third day after the tragedy that the family slowly began to realise how many other people had been sitting around in shocked disbelief at the news . |
| 56 | So then Berndt and the old witch will know I 'm as smart as they do n't want me to be , AND that I 've been poking around in high-security files . |
| 57 | We got charge accounts at Bloomingdales and stores like that , so we were always dressed fabulously and we were always sitting around in fabulous restaurants , charging for fabulous meals with all manner of people , which was all Tony 's plan to make it look like the most successful rock and roll company going . |
| 58 | There was nothing to reach for , no aching energy of ambition to move him ; as far as he could see , he was just kicking around in medium comfort and waiting to get old and die . |
| 59 | Downstairs in the lobbies , Tories were running around in equal bewilderment over the Speakership . |
| 60 | And I do n't think everybody 's going around in eastern Europe thinking oh what we need is to get back to the old Stalinist system where you , you know , you had someone telling you what to do all the time . |